Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa
| Air Memphis Boeing 707 accident in Mombasa | |
|---|---|
 The affected Air Memphis machine |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Deal from the runway |
| place |
Mombasa Airport , Kenya
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| date | March 10, 1998 |
| Fatalities | 6th |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Boeing 707-336C
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| operator |
 Air Memphis
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| Mark |
SU-PBA
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| Departure airport |
Mwanza Airport , Tanzania
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| Stopover |
Mombasa Airport , Kenya
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| Destination airport |
Cairo International Airport , Egypt
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| Passengers | 0 |
| crew | 6th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The air accident of a Boeing 707 of Air Memphis in Mombasa took place on March 10, 1998. On that day crashed a Boeing 707-336C at the start from Mombasa airport in Kenya . The machine collided with objects after takeoff and was completely destroyed, killing all six people on board.
machine
In the crashed plane, it was a Boeing 707-336C, which in 1967 in the work of Boeing on the Boeing Field in the State of Washington US was finally assembled than the 735. Boeing 707 off the production line with the serial number 19,843th The first flight of the machine took place on August 6, 1968, on August 13, 1968 it was delivered to the British Overseas Airways Corporation , where it went into service with the aircraft registration G-AVPB . After the airline was renamed British Airways , the machine went into operation on April 1, 1974. From April 11, 1981, the machine was then operated by British Airtours . The machine was finally sold to Egypt , where it began operations with the new aircraft registration number SU-DAC at ZAS Airlines of Egypt . Since September 1995 the machine with the new license plate SU-PBA was in operation at Air Memphis . The four-engine long-range narrow-body aircraft was equipped with four Turbojettriebwerken type Pratt & Whitney Jt3d-3B equipped.
Inmates and cargo
There was a crew of six on board the cargo plane. The cargo consisted of 34 tons of fish that were to be delivered from Mwanza to Cairo via Mombasa .
the accident
The take-off from Mombasa Moi Airport was carried out at 16:31. After taking off from runway 03, the machine flew against the approach lights at the end of the runway. Next, the machine crashed into a hill, rolled to the side, and fell to the ground. The machine broke apart and caught fire.
Runway 03 in Mombasa is 10,991 feet long, but at the time of the accident the first 2,600 ft of runway length was unusable due to renovation work.
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- Accident report B-707-336C, SU-PBA in the Aviation Safety Network
- Machine operating history on jetphotos.com